Step by step (3)

As the distance narrowed, she could clearly see the disgust and jealousy in Li Chengqian's eyes. She lowered her eyes slightly, let her eyelashes block her eyes, and slowly bowed down to Li Shimin: "Erchen knocks on his father, long live my father, long live long live my father." ”

Li Shimin nodded, and there was a hint of kindness in his majestic voice: "Get up." Worship the gods with me. With that, he turned around and entered the hall, Xiao Xiang got up and walked two steps quickly, following his left flank.

This is an extremely honorable position, Li Chengqian glanced at her again, and the two lips were tightly pursed together.

The ritual of sacrificing to the gods is actually not complicated, and it is divided into four steps: "the first sacrifice, the removal of disasters, the blessing, and the final sacrifice". The first ritual is performed by the priest in charge of the sacrifice, followed by the burning of the calamity-symbolic object, followed by the incense of the person who participates in the sacrifice offering incense to the god and secretly praying for what he has asked for, and finally the ritual at the beginning of the sacrifice is incinerated at the beginning of the sacrifice.

It looks simple, but in practice it is much more complicated, nothing else, but the complicated procedures make people feel dizzy. Not only that, but the heavy dress on Xiao Xiang's body made her feel that her body was about to be crushed, and it turned out that beauty had to pay a price.

Fortunately, Li Shimin had considered her physical condition before and had already ordered the ceremony to be shortened, so the ceremony was much simpler and not so lengthy.

After the sacrificial ceremony, Xiao Xiang retired first, changed into a regular dress, and then went to the family banquet.

Meander all the way to Shangyang Palace.

The banquet had already been set up in the palace, and everyone sitting there had already changed back to their regular clothes. Li Shimin sat on the top, and next to him were the four princes. Xiao Xiang's gaze slid over everyone, but he found that there was one more.

Xiao Xiang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and raised his eyes to look over. The man looked very rough, although he couldn't show his height when he was sitting, he could still see that he was a head taller than Li Ke even when he was sitting. Li Ke is no longer short, about 1.78 meters tall, and in this way, the person in front of him is at least 1.83 to 84 meters tall.

His appearance is also different from the handsomeness of Li Ke and others, with a strong national flavor, and he feels like a handsome guy on the grassland. Xiao Xiang clearly remembers that in a program launched by a certain TV station, the appearance with a national flavor was sought after by many girls. She can imagine that if this person was born in modern times, he would at least be given the title of the prince of the grassland.

It's just who is he? Why is it at this feast?

The doubts in her mind were quickly solved.

When Li Shimin saw her come in, he waved his hand and motioned for her to take the seat. Xiao Xiang is a very smart person, although Li Shimin treats her in private without the emperor's frame at all, but there are others present at the moment, and her performance is definitely a princess who respects the emperor. She took two steps forward, bowed and saluted, and it was not until Li Shimin asked her to get up that she sat down in her seat.

She could see that Li Shimin was extremely satisfied with her performance, although her face was still calm, but her eyes were full of approval. When she sat down, the grassland prince hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Weichen has seen Princess Gaoyang. Princess Chitose. ”

Fang Legacy Love!!!

These three words were suddenly like thunder, shaking Xiao Xiang on the spot, unable to speak for a long time.

Could it be that the person in front of you is the husband of Princess Gaoyang? Is it the one who watched his wife cheat on someone else and helped to keep the wind in love?

Xiao Xiang felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat at this moment, she forcibly suppressed the excitement in her heart and answered in a low voice. It's just that the voice trembled slightly, and Li Ke on the side looked at her very strangely.

Xiao Xiang realized his gaffe, took a deep breath, and turned his head to look at Li Shimin: "Father, the courtiers are very grateful for their father's concern. She picked up a glass of wine, "I wish my father and the emperor good health with this wine, and the country will be forever." ”

She tilted her head and drained the glass of wine, using the power of alcohol to stabilize her slightly flustered mood.

Li Shimin saw her like this, and immediately seemed very happy, and also raised his head to drink his wine, for a while, the staggered chips, silk and bamboo sound, the ladies and beauties shuttled around the banquet, and the fragrance was spreading.

After three rounds of drinking, he heard Li Tai say: "Father, today is an auspicious day, why don't you decide the emperor's sister's lifelong event." ”

Li Shimin nodded, and turned his head to look at Xiao Xiang with a smile: "Xiang'er ......"

Xiao Xiang was thinking about it at this time, and suddenly heard Li Shimin calling his name, and subconsciously blurted out: "I don't want to marry him!" ”

There was a dead silence all around.

As soon as she spoke, she knew something was wrong. I regret it in my heart, but it is already difficult to recover. timidly raised his gaze slightly, meeting Li Shimin's eyes...... Xiao Xiang bit his lip and whispered: "The courtiers want to serve their father, and they don't want to marry so early." ”

Li Shimin showed a smile and said slowly: "My father knows that you are filial, but you should marry a woman...... You are married to your bereaved love, but you can still enter the palace often. ”

Xiao Xiang was at a loss in his heart, and he didn't know what to say, so he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the bereaved love.

But seeing Fang Yiai's face was also full of shock, not a happy look. Could it be that he, like himself, does not want to get married? Something that doesn't make sense...... Xiao Xiang felt that the situation was a little weird, it was said that with such a favored princess as Gao Yang, marrying her was equivalent to winning the emperor's favor.

She couldn't imagine that there were people who didn't want to marry her.

It's weird.

However, this cannot be the focus of her attention at present, Li Chengqian opened his mouth, and the words that he said shook everyone present on the spot. Xiao Xiang looked at him in disbelief and muttered, "You...... What did you just say? ”

Li Chengqian glanced at her, poured himself a glass of wine, drank it with his neck tilted, and repeated coldly: "I mean, the envoys from Tibet arrived yesterday, and according to the informant, the purpose of their trip ...... is still the princess of desire. His eyes were full of conspiracy, and when he looked at Xiao Xiang, he seemed to be planning something.

Do you need to ask? Naturally, it was the idea of letting her go and kiss.

Xiao Xiang suddenly felt a wave of anger in her heart, no matter what happened to this body before, she thought that after she lived in place of Gao Yang, she didn't have anything to be sorry for him, did he do everything against himself?

Ruyu's face turned red in an instant, and she stared at Li Chengqian until Li Shimin spoke up: "Prince, you are drunk." The voice was more indifferent and ruthless than that of Li Chengqian, "Come on, send the prince back to the palace." ”

The good family banquet ended in a strange atmosphere, and the matter of the marriage room and the loss of love was also ended because of Li Chengqian's interruption.

Everything is silent.